EWTN Looks to Branch Out With Newsroom on Campus of Former Crystal Cathedral

GARDEN GROVE, Calif.—The lights and cameras quietly disappeared last year from the soaring glass sanctuary where, for more than three decades before his church went bankrupt, the televangelist Rev. Robert H. Schuller won a global following for his sermons and lavish productions.

Now, a Catholic television network is resurrecting the site's broadcast tradition as the church is transformed from a pioneering Protestant ministry into a...